A Note on the E-Mail Newsletter

Thanks to the readers of the e-mail newsletter who let me know something strange was going on with the links embedded in it. Specifically, some or maybe all of those links were generating a message alerting readers that some nefarious person or thing might have hijacked the e-mail address or this site or whatever it said, for the purpose of sending out spam or doing other things that nefarious people and things do. I do not think anything like that happened. What I do think happened will be related in the next two paragraphs, which I am telling you in advance because those paragraphs will be boring except to nerds. If you would like to avoid that, skip ahead two paragraphs and we’ll talk again there. The problem involved a conflict between my RSS feed provider, FeedBlitz, and my e-mail newsletter service, MailChimp. (Look, I warned you about this just a second ago. You should probably be at paragraph five.) Back in the day, I used FeedBurner for my RSS feed, but then Google…